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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Journal des Veterinaires du Midi, for June, 1859. 
CLINIQUE DE L’ECOLE IMPERIAL DE TOULOUSE. 
Par M. Serk.es, Chef du Service de la Clinique. 
The subject of these remarks was a cow in whose oesopha¬ 
gus a piece of beetroot, of an irregular shape, had become 
fixed. The man in charge of the animal took the handle of 
a cart-whip to force it down, and in this he succeeded to his 
satisfaction. The animal fed and ruminated as usual after 
the operation, but these favorable symptoms did not last 
long, for, in the evening of the same day, the cow became 
dull, and refused her food. The proprietor, alarmed at this, 
sent to the Veterinary School for assistance, when a student, 
of the fourth year, was immediately ordered to attend the 
case. He found the cow dull and dispirited, and standing with 
her head and neck extended, and making efforts from time to 
time to vomit. The mouth also was hot, and filled with saliva. 
Towards the inferior third of the cervical portion of the 
oesophagus was an elongated tumour, which w r as very pain¬ 
ful to the touch. Pressure upon this caused violent con¬ 
tractions of the muscles of the neck. The temperature of the 
body was increased; the horns were hot; the pulse accele¬ 
rated ; the mucous membranes injected, and the respiration 
increased. These symptoms, taken in connexion w r ith the 
history of the case, ought to have sufficed to the forming of a 
correct diagnosis; but it did not occur to the student that 
there might be a lesion of the oesophagus, caused by the 
handle of the whip which had been used, and he considered 
the case as one of simple phlegmon, and prescribed accord¬ 
ingly. By the next morning the symptoms had become 
much aggravated, and Mons. Serres now accompanied the 
student. He found, not only that the tumour existed in the 
neck, but that the whole of the inferior cervical region on 
the left side was emphysematous, as was also the greater 
